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City of Detroit back in its prime, Circa 1940s. Once the wealthiest city in the world, its decline was cemented when automobile companies began their exodus in favor of foreign manufacturing, that promised cheaper labor [1200x835]
Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) resting on the desert with the Amour mountain range in the distance, French Algeria. (Small groups of those lions lived in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco to the mid-1960s) Photograph c. 1893. [800 x 546]
The Real Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, 1990. [570x960]
18th May - 1980, Mt St Helens exploded in Washington state. Picture was taken by Richard Lasher. He decided he'd take a look at the mountain once again before it blew, so he drove up to see the mountain. While driving, the mountain exploded. He jumped out of the car and snapped this photo. [684x960]
What a great school photo. Look at all these faces. And the old school house. This photo was taken in New Athens, Ohio by photographer Joseph E. Williams, circa late 1800s-early 1900s. From my glass negative collection. (935 x 640)
The Khojaly Massacre of 1991. Conflict arose after the fall of the Soviet Union. Armenian soldiers entered Khojaly and murdered 600 Azerbaijani civilians in a single night. Total Azeri death count is estimated to be 30,000 with a million people displaced. ca. 1991 [600 x 420]
Woodstock Festival, New York, 1969. Photo by Lisa law. [2134x1419]
U.S. Eighth Air Force B-17s on a bombing run over Donauwörth, Germany. April, 1945 [3728 x 2945]
A family collecting maple sap in the winter, which will later be boiled into maple syrup. Quebec, Canada, c. 1970s [1200 x 1690]
Penny Teskey, a 21-year old secretary who lives in Eglinton riding, casts her first vote in the 1965 Canadian federal election. [1044 x 1920]
[1944] British paratroopers put thumbs up and make the signs of V-for-Victory waiting on a Dakota for Operation Market Garden [3480x2700]
The 30 m/89 ft concrete monument of the deposed President Ferdinand Marcos vandalized by tribesmen, who were displaced by the construction of the monument. Marcos had fled the Philippines to go on exile in USA the month before, following the People Power Revolution (Philippines 1986) [2031x2867]
Downtown Beirut, Lebanon - ca. 1960-70s [1,014 x 704]
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(1897) S. A. Andrée's failed arctic balloon expedition. Posing besides a killed polar bear. [2574x1707]
Testing advanced designs for high-speed aircraft, an engineer makes final calibrations to a model mounted in the 6 x 6 Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Field, California. 1 June 1948 [2993 × 2070]
Start your engines, Reddit. The all-new Toyota Crown is the first Toyota vehicle to launch with the Hybrid MAX powertrain for a powerful performance.
Lieut. John F. Kennedy (age 26) with his crew aboard Patrol Torpedo Boat 109 near the Solomon Islands. Sunk by a Japanese destroyer on August 2, 1943, 2 crewmen died. JFK and his crew swam for 5 hours to a deserted island. They were rescued 3 days later, after swimming to a larger island.[680x386]
Shackleton’s ship Endurance, Antarctica, August 27, 1915. Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, as it lay locked in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, where it finally sank. Photo by Frank Hurley - [900x691]
April, 1906: Robert C. Ogden, U.S. Secretary of War William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington and Andrew Carnegie at Tuskegee Institute's 25th anniversary celebration. [4202X3863]
The first celebration of Estonian Independence Day during the Estonian War of Independence. Tallinn, Estonia. February 24, 1919 [1462 × 987]
Police divers, Redford Township, Michigan, 1960 [809 x 540]
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, gives a speech at a Nation of Islam rally in front of Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad in 1962 [1239 x 823]
the execution of a collaborator with the Israeli forces, Sidon, Lebanon. 1985-10-30 [669x1024]
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Information Desk at John F. Kennedy Airport, 1956 (700 × 705)